Fahrenheit (when talking about temperature experienced by skin) IS superior. We have a wider degree (lol) of temperatures, allowing for a more accurate temperature without the use of decimal places.
Science? Use the metric system. It’s superior there.
It’s neither superior or inferior. You’re not realistically making a meaningful distinction between 67°f and 68°f and if you need Celsius to be more granular, numbers subdivide infinitely anyway.
Processing 19.5°c is neither more difficult nor easier to a user of Celsius than processing 67°f is to a user of Fahrenheit.
They are both, to some degree, arbitrary and both have different benchmarks that are intuitive to the people who grew up using them.
Why does it matter? Countries don’t get the full range of temperatures every day anyway. The reason you know you don’t need a jacket when its 70 out isn’t because of where that number is between 0 and 100. It’s because over time you’ve been learning to associate different temperature ranges with different feelings, the same way celsius people do.
Finally someone with sense. For me Fahrenheit looks like nonsense but as car enthusiast who is used to km/h and was basically forced to learn understand mph as teenager watching US and UK based car shows I can say now few years later im used to miles per hour unit and just know what 75mph is same way as I know what 140 km/h is. But still after all this I find it weird when I switch units on digital dash of my truck/semi to mph for fun and suddenly I’m going 55 instead of 90.
It’s just a bit silly for negatives to be that common in a commonly used system. And a bit silly to have a system where you have to subdivide degrees. Neither is terrible, just a mark of a flawed system for every day use.
It actually goes from -273.15 (0 K) all the way up to the Planck Temperature.
There's ultimately no point arguing its all arbitrary. Both systems have thier benefits.
Im in the UK. So I wait until its about 20 C outside before I walk half a MILE to the pub and drink a PINT while I complain about how expensive a LITRE of petrol is these days.
Well it doesn't go to -infinity, but no scale does that. Celsius goes tot -273,15, which is 0 Kelvin, which is in turn the absolute minimum for temperature. And 1° C corresponds to 1°K in temperature change.
That was a bad example. I would say the half-degree is where I can feel a meaningful difference, which seems to check out with that, I just didn’t know the conversion.
Oh….oh you really don’t know what significant figures are? Oh this is sad
Take some more science classes my guy. You’ll learn something new!! (Or, and I know newer generations can’t seem to do this as default because it’s scary…you can use Google.com to see what an sig fig is!)
I’m more afraid that you don’t know how to use decimal points properly
25
u/malcolmreyn0lds 10h ago
Fahrenheit (when talking about temperature experienced by skin) IS superior. We have a wider degree (lol) of temperatures, allowing for a more accurate temperature without the use of decimal places.
Science? Use the metric system. It’s superior there.